Boats from Norway [porn]

[John Gearing]

Here's the ten-oared Torvald at trials on the Hardanger Fiord! Her French owners are said to have made a North Sea crossing in her!
http://www.museumsnett.no/hfs/verft/bilder/frim/thorvald.jpg

A boatbuilder applying a tar finish on a beautiful small boat:
http://www.museumsnett.no/hfs/verft/bilder/frim/maling.jpg

Some shots of the museum's schoolship, Mathilda, a Hardanger jagt of some 73'. This photo taken by
Olav Bjorkum

http://www.museumsnett.no/hfs/segling/bilder/frim/mathilde_shv.jpg

Another shot of Mathilda, under square-sail (by HFS):
http://www.museumsnett.no/hfs/segling/bilder/frim/mathilde2.jpg

And still another, again by Olav Bjorkum:
http://www.museumsnett.no/hfs/museum/bilder/frim/mathilde.jpg

And here's the link to this fine museum of traditional Norse boatbuilding! I wonder if they take apprentices from the USA? http://www.museumsnett.no/hfs/eng/index.html

[ 02-07-2003, 06:21 PM: Message edited by: John Gearing ]

[Wild Dingo]

You thought no one was lookin didnt you mate?? HA! Fooled you well and truely!! tongue.gif

But you know what John?.... :confused:

Ive come to a conclusion about you mate... :rolleyes:

mmmmmm...

How to say it and still be nice??? ;)

YOU...

ARE...

ONE...

CRUEL...

BUGGAR!! :eek:

Now dont stop!!! :D

Ive got a masocistic {sp?} streak when it comes to these Viking boats!! tongue.gif :cool:

[Shaver]

Best looking thing I've seen since the photo's of Dingo.
atb
Stewie

[Shaver]

I've just realised why you looked. I thought it said POM!!!!!

[Wild Dingo]

ROFLMAO!!!

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid44/pfe9695e0c34eb66946a3a882c6027f59/fcdae0de.gif http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid47/p5a6dc212403f41ecb26eb3ee178f91a8/fcc8e74c.gif

Damned splatter sheild was down!!! :rolleyes:

[imported_Spissgatter W-9]

More Nowegian Boat porn. Here is the website for the Norwegian Klassisk Treseiler Klubb. Boat names are in column on left. Mine is Anna Marie. Enjoy ;)

[imported_Spissgatter W-9]

Oh, the website. Its: http://www.ktkweb.org/styret/Matrikkel/MatrikkelDefault.htm

[lagspiller]

I've gotta get in on this topic...

Mr. Gearing...? How is it that you have pictures like these (as I have noticed several places on the list)? Have you been here?

Both Mathilda and the Oselver are well known sights in my home waters. We have a little fleet of Oselvers here in Austevoll and will be hosting the national championships in the middle of August. I am still putting my crew together... mentioned just in case any experienced small-boat men on the list will happen to be in Norway this summer.

I also have had some experiences with Mathilda (the Hardanger Jakt). She is available for tours, and has gotten very popular. My final year students hired the boat for a cruise some years ago, and were put to work as crew. I can promise you that setting that enormous gaff main is a real job. Both the gaff and the boom are more than a man can reach around and very long. We needed about 8 16-year olds on the tophaul and the peak. Furling was like on the old square-riggers - 10 kids hanging over the gaff, standing on the boom grabbing handfull after handfull of sail. It was a real kick.

I was also surprised at the speed of the boat. I was out tooling around in my square meter, which is pretty fast, one evening and saw Mathilda flogging about across the fjord. I didn't have my biggest genny up, but Mathilda didn't have everything flying either. But Mathilda was fastest.

[John Gearing]

Hi Lagspiller!
I have to confess that I have never been to Norway, but I look forward to visiting some day! Yes, even though my grandfather was a Swede! :D
I'm glad you like the photos and it is wonderful to hear that you have sailed on the Mathilda! I found the photos by surfing the web and I liked them so much I wanted to share them. I have credited the photographer when I could tell who the photographer was. So, you have a meter boat? Fantastic! Please feel free to add to this thread with more links to Norwegian boat pages!

[ 04-17-2003, 11:51 PM: Message edited by: John Gearing ]

[Oyvind Snibsoer]

Here are some of the boats of a club I'm a memer of, the Bergen Seilskøyte Klubb, a club for owners, builders and enthusiasts of traditional sailing "Skøyte" or workboats.

The club leases a fairly large property from the Town, where memers can again lease space for restoration or even building a new boat. The club also has workshops for wood, with amply sized bandsaw, planers and lathe for seriosly big timbers, a spar workshop/storage, metal workshop and even lead keel casting facilities. There are also plenty of experienced old hands, and even professional builders, around to ask for advice.

The club does not discern between building materials. Thus, the club has mainly wooden boats, but also GRP and ferro cement hulls. The boat should, however, preferably have a wooden mast.

I'm almost ashamed to admit that even though I have these great resources at hand, I haven't gotten any closer to getting my own boat. However, having been blessed with three great and healthy kids in the last 3 1/2 years, I guess there's a time for everything, and now is not the right time for dad to use all his spare time on a boat project.

Some boats of the Bergen Seilskøyte Klub (http://home.c2i.net/hhaldors/bssk_1/bssk_a_bilder_1.htm#Båter%20og%20bilder)

[imported_Spissgatter W-9]

Oyvind,
Do you know any owners of 40 kvm Spissgatters? Finn Engelsen, Bergen, was a former owner of my boat. I'm trying to see how many of the original 20 of that class remain. Regards